{"id":846,"date":"2008-03-25T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=846"},"modified":"2008-03-25T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T19:08:09","slug":"a-tucker-carlson-post-mortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"A Tucker Carlson Post Mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TuckerThe first full week of the post-Tucker era on MSNBC validates the long overdue decision to cancel the perennial loser. David Gregory’s new program, “Race for the White House,”<\/em> outperformed Tucker by 35% (Gregory’s first week vs. Tucker’s last week). What’s more, on Friday, Gregory was the second highest rated program on MSNBC’s evening schedule (trailing only Countdown and beating Hardball). He also came in second against his competition, surpassing Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room on CNN. Tucker never came close to these achievements.<\/p>\n

While Gregory’s show is a conventional affair that doesn’t do much to differentiate itself from the cable news mediocrity, at least it isn’t hosted by an aggressively obnoxious (and obnoxiously aggressive) trust-fund pundit with a grating personality. That was probably worth 15% right off the bat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first full week of the post-Tucker era on MSNBC validates the long overdue decision to cancel the perennial loser. David Gregory’s new program, “Race for the White House,” outperformed Tucker by 35% (Gregory’s first week vs. Tucker’s last week). What’s more, on Friday, Gregory was the second highest rated program on MSNBC’s evening schedule […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[251,22,25],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-ratings","tag-david-gregory","tag-msnbc","tag-tucker-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":826,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=826","url_meta":{"origin":846,"position":0},"title":"Tucker Carlson: A True Washington Story","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/10\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"MSNBC is FINALLY taking a needed step, and not a moment too soon. 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